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/b/ is short for random so kind of seems like it's meant to siphon off / contain shitposts that would be distracting on other boards.


Its even in the rules for the other boards. Inflammatory nonsense goes in one of two or three boards, everything else has to be legal, nicer, you pick a word.

B has a tenuous grasp on reality as a whole, but individual comments and posts can be charming, informative, whatever. I used to read the nightly AI threads where people would ask "how did you..." And sometimes receive answers. I even asked a question about some new model I had not looking right and someone said "VAE" and I fixed the problem.

I don't recommend any chan unless you're the sort of person that doesn't flinch at cop videos, gore, extreme impurity, and potentially illegal topics.

There is gold there, but you really gotta dig in the excrement to find it. For most, that's probably not worth it.




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